Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But no sooner had Teddy floated his notion at a Boston news conference than he was caught up in a battle almost as fierce as that in which the Constitution sank the British warship Guerriere in 1812. Protested Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall: "We are proud of Old Ironsides...
On the surface, Japanese life seemed to have the "feathery Buddhist consistency of dreams." In reality, the Japanese were feverishly girding for war, as if for a sacred mission. "These little Japanese," noted Kazantzakis, "have an implacable purpose: to create a new human type which has no fear of death...
Pray Boru! Immodest as his words may sound, Shoriki is right. His optometrists consider him terribly myopic, but time after time he has proved himself dazzlingly farsighted. In the 1930s he introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the...
Harvard apparently is still uneasy about admitting creative artists to its community; the dramatic statement of purpose in the Le Corbusier building almost seems to frighten it. The VAC and the men who may instill it with life are treated as dangerous intruders in the sacred halls of the Academy...
(3 of 3) three of his predecessors: Paul Reynaud, Pierre Mendés-France and Michel Debré. Straining Minds. Louis-le-grand is today a classic building in the Rue Saint Jacques, its quiet broken by the whining Vespas of its 2,000 boys and the almost audible straining...